The company's purpose is to import and export goods of all kinds, in particular technical innovations, and to manufacture and distribute technical innovations for households, businesses, and industry, as well as to buy and sell patents and licenses. The company also aims to acquire, manage, and dispose of participations in Swiss or foreign companies of all kinds. The company can acquire, hold, license, and dispose of business properties and intellectual property rights. The company can conduct all other business that directly or indirectly promotes the aforementioned purposes. Furthermore, the company can provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect parent, sister, and subsidiary companies, as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiary companies, and can provide collateral of all kinds for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including its direct or indirect parent, sister, and subsidiary companies, as well as third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiary companies), including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. Additionally, it can engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing (zero balancing). This can also be done under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks.